| The_Liquid_Laser said: Some games age well and other games age poorly. LittleBigPlanet has aged poorly, especially since NSMB Wii released the following year and was a better 2D platformer. The consensus on this thread also seems to be that GTA IV didn't deserve a 98 on Metacritic. On the other hand Persona 4 was a PS2 game, so I don't think most critics wanted to spotlight a game from Generation 6 in 2008. They underrated it. I also think a lot of Wii games were underrated at the time for non-HD graphics, and possibly some critics were just pissed at Nintendo at the time for releasing a weaker system. But here we are 15 years later, and the graphics don't matter so much at this point. Instead people tend to focus more on the gameplay and other elements of the game that can withstand the test of time. Persona 4 has aged really well, and LittleBigPlanet hasn't. |
LBP had the best original music score at the time and Stephen Fry narrating! Plus the visuals were great with a lot of originality.
Plus it got the awards for the level creator and level sharing. If only the game had better controls.
Nowadays the user levels have all been lost in the sea of time, the iconic music has been overused and fallen out of fashion, the visuals have aged and were copied and improved upon, so all that's left is the floaty controls :/
GTA4 didn't deserve 98 when it came out. The on foot controls already sucked at release. Awards and reviews are mostly popularity contests and advertorials :/
Persona, one day I might have time for that series, I have P3 FES and P4 still waiting in my backlog lol.
